What's your controversial opinion?

[Hedonist]

I believe that every single thing in this world should be free (food, clothes, cars, medical care, houses, etc...), we should do away with money, and have all people on the planet work for no pay (well, all the free stuff would kind of be pay).

As a child I always thought that this solution would solve all issues human beings could ever face.

Sorry, your view is tantamount to Anarchism and anarchism is a precursor to the feudal system. The world does not to need to reverse 700 years. My controversial opinion is that I believe that Fascism didn't get a chance. It actually works. If you leader isn't Hitler that is. But even then, Germany was a world power within 6 years from when the Nazis got in power to the onset of world war.

What the political world needs, is order. No bickering, a strong set of rules that everyone adheres to and then just maybe the world world get on fine.

I think the biggest problem with fascism is the fact that power corrupts everyone. Putting a sane man in charge doesn't work because he'll eventually go mad. The way to combat this is putting mechanisms in place that prevent one man from having total control and to make sure that leaders are held responsible for their actions. And when you've done that, it isn't really fascism anymore.

 

[DarkenedWolfEye]

Fine, though I won't pretend that I in any agree with this, I see humanity as the most beautiful creations of the universe and believe we are superior to everything we have so far encountered it in. The Earth is the equivalent of a house, hugely important to it's inhabitants but only for the shelter it provides them, without them it is worthless.

And that ladies and gentlemen is my controversial opinion.

Oh ... I think I'm going to hate you.

 

[JoJo]

Fine, though I won't pretend that I in any agree with this, I see humanity as the most beautiful creations of the universe and believe we are superior to everything we have so far encountered it in. The Earth is the equivalent of a house, hugely important to it's inhabitants but only for the shelter it provides them, without them it is worthless.

And that ladies and gentlemen is my controversial opinion.

Oh ... I think I'm going to hate you.

Spoiler: Oh well you know what they say...

No matter, hate me if it makes you feel good about yourself, I don't mind. If it makes you happy, then I have achieved my purpose. Onwards humanity! :-D

 

[Wintermoot]

I think DNF isn't that bad of a game.
but somehow it got more hate here then the entire COD franchise.

 

[CATB320]

1. I believe in God.
2. I'm pro life.
3. I'm a Republican.
4. If the draft/conscription ever came back, I think it would be perfectly okay for women to be drafted as well. (That was a weird one, but, food for thought.)
5. I prefer the Battlefield series over Call of Duty.

 

[rutger5000]

Humanity is this species that consists out of homosapiens, these evolved primates are their environment and don't have a significant will on their own. I also doubt that they have a soul, these homosapiens form the vast majority of humanity. But amongst these evoleved primates humans walk, these humans do have their own will and diver from their environment. They most certainly have a sould.
This doesn't mean that homosapiens are evil and humans are good, just that homosapiens are less individual and of no real value (There are so many of them).
Examples. Hitler was a human, his followers were homosapiens, but so were the jews that led themselves be killed so easily. Ghandi was a human, but his followers were just homosapiens doing what their environment did.
I don't exactly know yet how to become a human, I'll let you know when I know.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Democracy is a failure because of the fact that the common man doesnt understand how to run an country. Yet we judge those who do when we vote, and anything that affects us negatively in the short term makes us vote against our leader so they cant always make long term plans. We'd be better off with a good natured and smart man as dictator for life. Only problem with that is finding such a paragon, and what happens when he dies.

 

[rutger5000]

I think that Niccolo Machiavelli was right, at least in a broad sense.
Continuing from that, I think that people who don't believe that "The ends justify the means" are incredibly selfish. Say that you had to kill a child soldier to prevent a bomb being set off in the middle of London/Washington/Moscow, or anywhere with a large concentration of people. Would you honestly allow hundreds of people to die just to allow your conscience to be clean?

As one of those people, I think you may misunderstand the position. If I say "The ends do not justify the means" or "You cannot commit evil with good intentions", that doesn't mean you can't do unpleasant things, but that you cannot do things which are, in and of themselves, always evil. Like killing an innocent. So, if your situation is that there is a child soldier trained to kill, in the middle of an operation which will result in a bomb going off killing thousands, then I would say that that soldier, child though he may be, is not an innocent. He's an enemy combatant. By all means, stop him by any means necessary, up to and including lethal force.

Then again, you may be talking about the classic "ticking time bomb" moral question. If that's the case, then my answer is yes, I would "allow" those people to die, rather than committing some monstrously evil act. How that is considered selfish, when in all likelihood I or my loved ones may be within the blast area, is a mystery to me.

I may well have misunderstood the position, though I thoroughly agree with your first statement.
However, if I had to commit a decidedly evil act to save that many people, then as long as I could emotionally do so at the time, I would, though of course there are things that I could simply never do.
I would consider it selfish because, rather than allow yourself to live with massive guilt and save hundreds of people, you would rather them die with yourself. Since it's your legacy lives on in the world, I would like to know that I saved lives at tremendous cost to myself rather than let myself and them die.
But surprisingly few people agree with this.

I believe morality is rather easy, and when it's not you're doing something wrong. For me your example only holds when you're 100% sure that child will kill that many people, and the only way to stop him is to kill him. But you can't bomb cities or kill children to win wars or something, those 'ends' are too uncertain, too far away and too subjective.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I believe that after 34 pages a thread should quietly die in a corner.

 

[Eggsnham]

I believe sex is a special, meaningful act that you should share only with the person you are married to. I get some really weird looks from people when they first ask if I'm a virgin and I say yes, then they ask why and I give them that answer.
The fact that I believe in God also seems to be rather controversial, at least on this site.

I'm not trying to flame anybody here or start something, but I just have to say this:

Sex is a biological imperative for all living beings. What that means is, that no matter how you look at it, sex is just sex. By all means, wait for the right person or even for marriage, but it won't change the fact that the only reason people consider sex to be special is the taboo and traditional feelings surrounding it. Repressing one of your strongest instincts can't be very healthy, though.

Of course, this is just my opinion, so I'm not trying to undermine yours.

Spoiler: My controversial opinion! Wow!

Anyways, my controversial opinion... I've gotten into a couple of arguments with people before because I think that abortion should be accepted into society.

It's not like the women going through it enjoy making that choice, and most of the time there aren't a whole lot of other choices for them besides giving birth to the child, which is what they don't want to do for whatever reason.

The baby isn't much more than a complex clump of cells at the times that abortion is legal in the U.S., so the whole argument that you're killing a sentient human doesn't really hold up. It's like saying that a dude whacking off in the toilet is murdering 4 million babies because the sperm cells all had potential to fertilize an egg.

 

[Creator002]

Spoiler: Cannablism

I think cannablism should be allowed, but with some guidelines to make it safe and legal.
For example, you can't kill someone just to eat them. They have to already be dead.
They have to agree to be food after dying, like organ doners.
Guidelines regarding cleanliness.
Etc, etc.

 

[XelaisPWN]

I dunno, I'm pretty logical and unfeeling in most of my beliefs. I don't believe in any of that spirituality garbage.

I'm also hardcore libertarian, that is I believe in being socially liberal, i.e., legalize prostitution, drugs, gay marriage, gun rights, etc., and fiscally conservative, i.e. lower taxes, free markets and all that. Basically, one step below anarchy. Sometimes I get odd looks for it, but I think deep down most people (in this country, at least) are on the same wavelength with that whether they want to admit it or not. I frequently talk to people on either popular party for them just to tell me they agree with me on most things, if not everything, but It's a very unpopular party, perplexingly enough. Iunno, maybe I'm talking out of my ass. xD

One thing I get into arguments with a lot of people about is hypnotism. People swear by it, and I just don't freaking see it. I've seen a live stage hypnotist, and it was just a bunch of people listening to some dude tell them what to do and they pretended to believe they were doing it. I felt like I was the only sane person in the room. Yeah, I know, it's petty, but it's one of the few things my friends don't agree with me on.

 

[Ephyon]

I believe in capital punishment.

 

[SuperMarshmallow]

I believe in that left and right are simply the new nomenclature for the ideological struggle mankind has been embroiled in since the beginning--collectivism versus individualism. I also believe that the current trends are bringing us to a more highly collectivised society that will, eventually, resemble fascism (Remember kids, it was National Socialism) and that really these trends cannot be fought, due in part to the far-left being composed of the shrewdest political manipulators in history, the primarily liberal slant of media and the fact that these trends have become so heavily imprinted on our culture that they will continue to their logical conclusion. I also believe that if anyone dares to bear this truth to people, they will be called an ignorant inbred right-wing hick by the left and will be demonized endlessly.
Oh, and I loved Dragon Age 2. That seems to be controversial these days as well.

 

[Kurokami]

I wish nazis had won WW2. Im not an anti-semite though. Oh and I dont believe in freewill.

Care to elaborate? It's easy for your opinion to seem controversial if you don't explain it at all. As for not believing in freewill, I assume it comes down to how you've decided to define it.

I feel like sexuality has more to do with gender identification early on in a child's development than it does with genetics. This just makes sense to me but every time I mention it I get dirty responses.

You mean like they told us in first year Psych? (I don't mean us to necessarily include you, nor did I mean to state that as an ass, it's more so a 'yeah, this is apparently quite a popular belief')

Oh, and I loved Dragon Age 2. That seems to be controversial these days as well.

So did my sister. For me it just seemed to lack any type of draw, the whole story felt like some sort of filler. But hey, it's all just a matter of opinion. I will say that the fighting and skills did seem somewhat improved and from a more cinematic/aesthetic point of view, it was still very enjoyable.

 

[Liberaliter]

I still like Sonic the Hedgehog.

OK, so maybe it isn't THAT controversial, but you have all these people wearing nostalgia glasses saying that it was better in 2D, treating it like so.

Easily the most controversial opinion in this thread!

 

[Low Key]

I hate teenagers. I wish I could obtain a hunting license and weed them out a bit. The world would be a better place.

Yes, I was once one and I was a fucking idiot, just like every single teenager reading this right now. No exceptions. Just wait, you'll see.

 

[Reptiloid]

Right here's the deal. My controversial opinion is that some opinions are controversial!

 

[Pikey Mikey]

If someone commits a crime, their punishment should be equal and fitting to the crime.

Religion holds back progress, and is an example of human weakness. It has its benefits, don't get me wrong, but it restricts the human trait of curiosity. "How was the Earth created?" "I don't know. Lets go with magic." "Shouldn't we try and apply reason and logic to this-" "MAGIC!"

If you believe something, solely because you've been told to, whether its a religion, a political theology, or something else, you are an idiot. Find the facts and make your own opinion.

Oh, and democracy never truly works.

But didn't you know that it's not magic, it's actually this man called God (size and looks unknown) and somehow he just said "let there be a whole bunch of things with ready names, made from nothing." *clap clap* and then it was there
(and it only took him 6 days to make all that stuff)
(from nothing (impressi...impossible)) =|.
I don't mean to insult anyone religious. Rather , based on my own thoughts/opinions, to make a "whitty remark" or a "joke" as I belive it is called. =)

 

[Silent_Protagonist]

Ive only had one other person agree with me on this:

I believe that if a person is spending life in prison (i dont beleive in the death penalty btw) and has no chance for parole, then said person should be tested on scientifically. This nmeans testing new drugs, procedures or medicine.

I think the Ends justifies the means. Some 500,000 people may be hurt physically or mentally by the testing, but in the long run cures to diseases and practices that could potentially save millions is worth it.

This is only for people who have 0% chance of ever being released by any means from a prison.

This beleif also stretches to stem-cell research on fetuses. Some fetus dont get to grow into maturity, but later on in life no one has to suffer from having a parent with Parkinsons or diabetes or alzheimers? Count me a supporter.

I would appreciate to hear others oppinions on these thoughts.